Sentences with phrase «than investment grade bonds in»

High yield, lower rated bonds involve a greater degree of risk than investment grade bonds in return for higher yield potential.

Not exact matches

The fund can purchase securities of any credit quality, including those in default, but it will primarily invest in investment - grade debt, with no more than 20 % of the portfolio invested in junk bonds.

Investing in high yield fixed income securities, otherwise known as «junk bonds», is considered speculative and involves greater risk of loss of principal and interest than investing in investment grade fixed income securities.

The average investment - grade (high - yield) bond trades on less than 32 % (36 %) of days over the prior six months — liquidity in corporate bonds was considerably lower than in traditional listed equity markets.

For example, Fidelity will allow you to search both investment grade and junk bonds, show you the number of bonds available at both the bid and ask price, and will even allow you to submit a limit order (although you can not put in a good until cancelled order or one that is more than a small amount away from the current bid / ask).

In recent months, the yield on US corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield on government debt, dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.

This is a market - based estimate of the amount of fear in the bond market Bass - rated bonds are the lowest quality bonds that are considered investment - grade, rather than high - yield.

The bottom line of Draghi's answers was that the ECB would only buy government bonds rated lower than investment grade if the countries are in a bailout programme and the programme is not in a review period.

It's also interesting to examine the changing significance and dynamics of the European bond market in general, which has almost doubled in size since 2005 to more than $ 10 trillion today, including government, investment - grade corporate debt and high yield.

Issuance of investment - grade corporate bonds picked up in early March in a receptive market, as investors sought higher yields than were available on safe - haven Treasury bonds.

According to Bloomberg, as of June 15, 2016, more than 60 % of the issuers in the iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond Index are rated investment grade.

These are far more powerful factors in driving valuations than changes in fundamentals of investment - grade bonds.

The main danger of a junk bond fund is that there will be a higher rate of bankruptcy / default than in an investment grade bond fund.

But I'd be wary of venturing, as some investors seeking higher yields do, into high - yield, or junk, bond funds, as they're generally more volatile than investment - grade funds and don't hold up as well in periods of economic and market stress.

The DRS has had more downside risk than traditional investment - grade bonds, but with the lack of yield available in fixed income, an increasing number of investors are open to the idea of an allocation to «alternative fixed income.»

For example, the total return for the bond market has not only beaten the total return for the stock market in the period, the risk - adjusted reward for investment grade bond ownership has been far greater than the risk - adjusted nominal gains in stocks.

High - yield, non-investment-grade bonds involve higher risk than those that invest in investment - grade bonds.

The BofA Merrill Lynch Index tracks the performance of U.S. dollar - denominated investment grade government and corporate public debt issued in the U.S. domestic bond market with at least 1 year and less than 10 years remaining maturity, including U.S. treasury, U.S. agency, foreign government, supranational and corporate securities.

IGHG and HYHG may be more volatile than a long - only investment in investment grade or high yield bonds.

Through its investment in Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund, the Portfolio also indirectly invests in government, government agency, corporate, and securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments, all issued in currencies other than the U.S. dollar and with maturities of more than 1 year.

This index measures a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States — including government, corporate, and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities, all with maturities of more than 1 year.

The Fund's investments in high - yield securities or «junk bonds» are subject to a greater risk of loss of income and principal than higher grade debt securities.

Investments in high - yield bonds offer different rewards and risks than investing in investment - grade securities, including higher volatility, greater credit risk, and the more speculative nature of the issuer.

I'm not generally a fan of insurance companies investing in anything more dangerous than investment grade bonds.

In 2016, more than a net $ 6.4 billion had flowed into high - yield mutual funds through the end of August, sending the sector higher by nearly 15 % YTD, compared to an approximately 7 % return for the S&P 500 and 4 % for investment - grade bonds over the same period.

A bond fund that normally invests in investment - grade securities with a duration of less than 1.5 years.

Another important takeaway from the Callan table is the value of holding a portion of your nest egg in a safe haven like investment - grade bonds (as opposed to high - yield, or junk, bonds, which are more volatile and tend to move more in synch with stocks than bonds).

After all, the investment - grade bond market (represented in the table by the Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate bond index) posted the lowest annual return more often than any other asset class, nine times over this 20 - year stretch.

Wexboy is nice enough to add almost a year to the average life expectancy of the old folks in his spreadsheet, and I think the proper discount rate is probably even closer to the risk - free rate (near zero these days...) than the yield of investment grade bonds.

Through its ownership of the two bond funds, the Portfolio also indirectly holds a mix of bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 year.

The percentages of the Portfolio's assets allocated to each Underlying Fund are: Vanguard ® Total Bond Market II Index Fund 60 % Vanguard ® Total International Bond Index Fund 15 % Vanguard ® Institutional Total Stock Market Index Fund 17.5 % Vanguard ® Total International Stock Index Fund 7.5 % Through its ownership of the two bond funds, the Portfolio indirectly holds a mix of bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 yBond Market II Index Fund 60 % Vanguard ® Total International Bond Index Fund 15 % Vanguard ® Institutional Total Stock Market Index Fund 17.5 % Vanguard ® Total International Stock Index Fund 7.5 % Through its ownership of the two bond funds, the Portfolio indirectly holds a mix of bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 yBond Index Fund 15 % Vanguard ® Institutional Total Stock Market Index Fund 17.5 % Vanguard ® Total International Stock Index Fund 7.5 % Through its ownership of the two bond funds, the Portfolio indirectly holds a mix of bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 ybond funds, the Portfolio indirectly holds a mix of bonds — including government, government agency, corporate, securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — that represents a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable, fixed income securities in the United States and abroad, all with maturities of more than 1 year.

The Index measures a wide spectrum of public, investment - grade, taxable fixed income securities in the United States — including government, corporate, and international dollar - denominated bonds, as well as mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities — all with maturities of more than 1 year.

Through its ownership of Vanguard ® Total International Bond Index Fund, the Portfolio indirectly owns government, government agency, corporate, and securitized non-U.S. investment - grade fixed income investments, all issued in currencies other than the U.S. dollar and with maturities of more than 1 year.

And while bond investors have suffered setbacks recently as yields have risen by more than a percentage point from their 2016 lows in part because of concerns that tax cuts and infrastructure spending in a Trump administration could spur inflation, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index — a good proxy for the investment - grade taxable bond market — is actually up almost 2 % from the beginning of the year.

With lower return potential than stocks, overcoming the impact of management fees and trading costs in bonds should be more difficult, especially in the lower - yielding investment - grade arena.

Investing in high yield fixed income securities, otherwise known as «junk bonds» is considered speculative and involves greater risk of loss of principal and interest than investing in investment grade fixed income securities.

In recessions, high - yield bonds typically lose more principal value than investment - grade bonds.

Our research on the Fundamental Index ® concept, as applied to bonds, underscores the widely held view in the bond community that we should not choose to own more of any security just because there's more of it available to us.10 Figure 9 plots four different Fundamental Index portfolios (weighted on sales, profits, assets and dividends) in investment - grade bonds (green), high - yield bonds (blue) and emerging markets sovereign debt (yellow).11 Most of these have lower volatility and higher return than the cap - weighted benchmark (marked with a red dot).

Americo is very competitive in the life insurance market — and the carrier maintains a high quality, liquid investment portfolio that consists of more than 95 percent investment grade bonds in its fixed income investments.

The premium paid on CMBS rated BBB -, the lowest investment - grade level before junk, has tumbled 105 basis points over the last month, more than 10 times the spread compression of investment - grade corporate bonds, Edward Reardon and Simon Mui wrote in a note dated Aug. 2.

In October, U.S. Treasury yields declined 23 basis points on a year - over-year basis, while corporate debt on the low end of the investment grade spectrum increased more than 65 basis points, nearly a 90 basis point increase in the spread between U.S. Treasuries and the low - end of investment grade corporate bondIn October, U.S. Treasury yields declined 23 basis points on a year - over-year basis, while corporate debt on the low end of the investment grade spectrum increased more than 65 basis points, nearly a 90 basis point increase in the spread between U.S. Treasuries and the low - end of investment grade corporate bondin the spread between U.S. Treasuries and the low - end of investment grade corporate bonds.